NIGHT EXTRA— Russians Abruptly Break Pdtce EXTRA, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Jsk ®l)c Star-JnDcpcn&ent * * LXXXVII- No. 2 16 PAGES U. S. MUST RUSH TROOPS TO EUROPE SAYS WAR COMMISSION ■W. i RUSSIA HALTS PARLEY WIT REBELS OBSTINATE] German Attitude Regarding Poland and Lithuania Is Cause of Concern. Self D eHnilion Impossible Until Last Han Has Left Invaded Territory; Bolshe viki Aims, Says Correspondent, Is World Revolution of Peace By Associated Press London, Jan. 2.—Peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk have been broken off by the Bolsheviki government ow ing to the German attitude in regard to Poland and Lithuania and the en emy's proposal that garrisons be re tained at Libau, Riga and elsewhere, according to a telegram from the j Petrograd correspondent of the Daily j News appearing in a late edition of that paper to-day. The dispatch quotes an article from I tho Bolshevik newspaper Izvostia dis cussing "the new phase in the peace negotiations." The article says that owing to pressure from below the Germans have been obliged to soil I heir lips with the formula put for- RICE, BRITISH AMBASSADORTO U. S., RECALLED Demand For Younger Men Causes Retirement of Prominent Diplomats By Associated I'ress Washington, Jan. 2. —The report that Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British ambassador to the United States, will retire from his post here, was con- j tlrmed to-day in official circles. The ambassador arranged to see Secre tary Lansing this morning and it was understood he would inform the Sec retary of the change. The retirement of Ambassador Spring Rico will not be followed by any change in policy at Washington by the British government. It was sa la- After the ambassador had conferred with Secretary Lansing, he made this statement: "The British ambassador is going home on leave, but he can make no further statement at present in re gard to the matter." It is understood a formal announce ment will be maue in London. London, Jan. 2.—ln announcing that Sir Cecil Spring Rice and l,ord Bertie are on the eve of retiring from the j embassies at AVashington and Paris [ and In reporting the rumor that Sir | George Buchanan is about to resign i from the l'etrograd post, the Daily Chronicle pleads the "urgent need of bringing fresh blood into a service which has long bee ndivorced from the ' actualities of modern life." The pa- I per ask j whether the government had j [Continued on Page 12.] Lock Haven Faces Serious Water Shortage Willianisport. Pa.. Jan. 2.—Lock Hiven, Mill Hall and Flemington face a serious situation due to water shortage and coal scarcity. Streams feeding two reservoirs front which the three towns secure water sup plies are frozen and the reservoirs contain little water. Mill Hall and Vlemlngton and a part of Loci: Haven are practically without water. Schools and industries In Mill Hail ,?nd I<Teiington were closed to-da.v. The hospital of Lock Haven is in tho section affected by the water short age. This afternoon trolley service be tween tho towns stopped as tho com pany was unable to keep lires under its boilers. Lock Haven's gas supply was cut off early to-day due to the cracUs in mains as a result of dis lodgment by the frost and a scarcity of coal. Battles With 4 German Machines; Escapes Death Paris, Jan. 2.—Lieutenant Raoul Lufbery, of W'ellingford, Conn., of the Lafayette escadrille, had a nar ro wescapo in a light with four Ger man battle machines last Saturday. The gasoline pipes on his airplane were punctured during the engage ment and although he had the ad vantage of a higher altitude, his ma chine became almost helpless by the stoppago of his motor. Lieutenant Lufbery seemed virtu ally at the mercy of the Germans, but l>y clever maneuvering, with one of the Germans following him down almost to earth and llring continu ously. ho managed to escape unhurt. 11 lu machine was found to have clex - j en bullet- holes in it. ward by the Socialists at the begin ning of the war, but the German im perialists would not be imperialists if they did not try to take back in fact what with gritted teeth they yielded in words. "The Russian revolution cannot ac cept their conditions to retain Poland and Lithuania. Just you try it, gen tlemen, says the Izvostia." This is the line, the correspondent of the Daily News adds, that proba bly will be taken at a general meet ing tp-night (Tuesday) to consider the report of the Russian peace dele gates. The Bolshevik aim, he adds, is a world revolution of peace on their rContinued on Page 11.] COSSACKS HOLD DON COAL REGION; j DISARM REBELS! - I Rumanians Arrest -and Shoot j Bolsheviki Leaders Accused ' of Plundering Bji Associated I'ress I.oiulon, Jan. 2.—Tlio spirit of civil war is active in tho Cos sack territory and tlic entire ]M>pulation of the Don valley lias been mobilized, according to ! a Petrograd dispatch to the ' Times. All men of military ago ! are under arms and women and youtlis are licing employed be- i hind the lighting line. Thousands j of oflicers of the regular army J have joined General Kaledines, who is now said to have more 1 than twenty thousand commis sioned oflicers. l.ondon, Jan. 2.—Cossack troops have occupied the town of Alexan drovsk without opposition and the Bolsheviki garrision was disarmed, according to reports received here from Petrograd regarding the civil war in Russia. It is not stated which Alexandrovsk was captured. (There are several towns and villages in Russia named Alexandrovsk, but the nearest to the Cossack territory are [Continued on Page 12.] Court-Martial Sentences Five More Negro Rioters to Death by Hanging Ry Associated I'ress San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 2.—Five of j ' the negroes tried by the last court ; martial in connection with the Hous ! ton riots have been sentenced to be j hanged, according to the verdict of I the court, announced by Major Gen i eral Ruckman this morning. I They arc: Privates Babe Collier, {Thomas -McDonald, James Robinson, 1 | Joseph Smith and Albert W. Wright, ! all or Company I. Twenty-fourth | I'nitea Plates Infantry. Execution of | the sentence will bo suspended until j after the case is reviewed by Presi - deht Wilson. Three of the fifteen | tried were sentenced to ten years at ] Leavenworth and seven to .seven i years each. Dr. Chamberlain May Plead Guilty at Trial j Goochland, Ya„ Jan. —lnterest in | t he trial of l)r. Asa W. Chamberlain. I charged with the murder of his ! brother, Albert P. Chamberlain, set I for to-day in circuit court here, was ! heightened by the announcement yes terday at Richmond by James C. j Page, counsel for tho accused man. I that he would enter a plea of guilty. The state had prepared a circumstan tial case seeking to show the men quarreled over a debt and that the physician killed Ills brother, whoso body was later found burled in por tions in the physician's yard near here. Catawissa Suffers a Lightless Night Williamsport, Pa., Jan. 2.—The borough of < 'atawissa suffered an en forced lightless night last night. The coal supply of tho town's electric light plant was exhausted and none could bo secured until to-day. Can dles and oil lfinips were used in every homo in the borough. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1918 AMERICA TO RUSH YANKEES TO FRONT 'Washington, Jan. 2. —Amer-| ican troops are to be rushed toj Europe in as large and ;:s con-| stant a stream as is humanely possible; the allied nations will t so arrange their shipping as to: provide the necessary trans ports; the merchant shipbuild ing program must be rushed: there is to be closer co-operation | of all the co-belligerents to pre-' sent a single and united front to German autocracy; the part of 1 the United States has been ;lcarly defined and arrangements I made to carry it out. These arc the principal re sults, as they affect America-, of the recent inter-allied war coun cil in Paris, announced to-day for the first time by the State Department. The principal recommendations of tho American delegates, headed by Colonel 10. At. House, as President Wilson's personal representative are: Must Kxort liillucmV "That tho United States exert all their influence to secure the entire unity of effort, military, naval and economic between themselves and the countries associated with them in the war. "Inasmuch as the successful term ination of the war by the United EVERY S2O A WEEK CLERK MUST PAY AN INCOME TAX Big Force of Experts Here 10, Advise Harrisburgers How to Rush Payments A big squad of government trained] men, all experts in the intricacies of ; the new Income Tax Law arrived in liarrisburg this morning under the command of Deputy Revenue Col lector M. E. Plymire and took up quarters at Room 5, second floor of the Spooner Building, No. 9 North Second street. Each of them will he appointed shortly to a county seat town in one of the fifteen counties in this dis trict. Mr. Plymire will remain here, with a. staff of assistants and take [Continued on Page B.] PLAYING WATER ON PLANT RUINS ' ■%. .. ■ ' : v-, ' i-iit lo of the two IlarrlsburK Pipe and Pipe Bending Company shops burned early to-day are left standing- Flromon worked until noon to prevent the spread of the blaze. All energies now are being turned to rebuilding tho works. Men in the departments will be employed else where in the works. I States and the allies can lie greatly I hastened by the extension ot' the | United States shipping program, that I the government and the people of the ; United States bend every effort to | wards accomplishing this result by a | | systematic co-qrdination of resources] , of men and materials . I • Least Possible Delay i "That the fighting forces of the United States he dispatched to Kurope with the least possible delay, | incident to training and equipment." | The following statement by the . State Department was made public in connection with the recommenda . i tions: "A review of the report filed with ! Ihe Department of State by Colonel | House, the head of the special war ! mission which visited Great Britain arid France in November, shows it succeeded in its purpose of reaching a deiinite working plan for the prose " cution of the war through co-opera tion of the governments represent ed at the conferences held at Paris ' in the. various lields of activity and , til rough marshaling the resources ' of the nations at war with the cen tral powers and i-o-ordinuting their I' uses under a common authority thus avoiding the waste and uncertainties L that arise from independent action. "The results of the conferences as shown in the report are most grati -1 fying to this government, first. bc -3 cause they indicate the conferees 1 were inspired by the desire be 1 mutually helpful, and second, be i cause the agreements which were reached when in ftil 1 operation, will I [Continued oil Page 11.] FIRST VICTORY OF YEAR WON BY ITALIAN TROOPS i| Brilliant Victories of French i Troops Help to Make Flank Along Piavc River Intact By Associated Press ' | Italian troops have won the first i victory recorded in the New Year. The defensive line from Lake Garda , to the Adriatic has been strengthened by the Italian sucess in driving the Austro-Germans from the Zenson ! bridgehead on the western bank of j the Piave, which they had held since ; j mid-November. While holding strong positions in , I the mountain region from Asiago ■ I across the Brenta to the Piave, the 1 [Continued on Page 11.] CA USE OF BLAZE BEING BY COMPANY'S Officials Believe Cigaret or Match Thrown Into Barrel of Explosive Paint Caused Blaze; Plans For Re building Shops of Concrete Already Under If ay: Plenty of Work For Employes. I • Two plants of the llarrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Com pany and the electric transforming hut, which regulates the cor poration's power supply, were completely destroyed to-day by Ore which started shortly before A o'clock this morning. Thousands of dollars in machin ery and finished and unlinished war munitions for the United States government were ruir.ed in the blaze. Two employes who helped fight the flames are in the Harrisburg Hos pital with minor hurts. Officials at noon were of the opinion that a match or clgaret thrown into a ten-gallon can of highly inflammable paint in the cylinder lln ishing department. David E Tracy, president of the company, has> ordered a minute investigation. The loss to the Pipe Bending Com pany is estimated conservatively at more than $200,000. William P. Starkey. superintendent of the plant, placed the loss at that figure, while all other officials in the offices of the company placed the losses much higher, some even estimating a half a million. Make Pour-inch Shells The cylinder finishing department, j with thousands of dollars worth of finished products for the United I Marines Stand Guard Over Norfolk Ruins; Loss Is $2,000,000 By Associated Press Norfolk, Va„ Jan. 2.—Marines and bluejackets stood guard to-day over the downtown section of Norfolk, where three separate fires yesterday wiped out live ot the city's largest buildings, entailing losses estimated at $2,000,000. Police Chief Kizer and Fire Chief McLoughlin to-day were less inclined to place blame for the fires on incendiarism, although both declared the circumstances were sus picious. Military guards, however, were in no way relaxed and during the night all persons who could not give an account of themselves were warned away from the businness sec tion. Revised lists of the casualties from the lire which engaged the attention of Norfolk, Portsmouth and SufTolk firemen all day yesterday and into the night showed that Charles McCoy, a fireman, was the only person known to have lost his life. Four firemen were seriously hurt and a score of others were less seriously injured. Firemen said it was possible that re moval of debris would show other deaths from falling walls. More than a aepi e of persons were arrested as suspects during the day and night and about a dozen held for investigation. Two men thought to be Germans were among those held. They gave their names as Hugo I Schmidt and 11. If. Leasing. States government, was the first plant destroyed by the fire, which rapidly spread south to the rougn turning shop, where four-inch shells are made for the United States Navy. Directly across a narrow roadway frbni the south end of the cylinder finishing plant, is the transforming hut, with its two electric transform ing machines, which was destroyed. The loss in this one small building atone is estimated to be at least $5,- 000. It is in building that the electricity supplied by the city is re duced in voltage power and dis tributed throughout the entire plant. The two machines procured dur ing the last year are a completo loss, it was thought this morning. Throughout the two plants de stroyed the entire equippage was practically new, liavtng been ac quired by the company since it start ed to work on the government con tracts recently awarded. In the cylinder finishing depart ment, the ten new tifty-horsepower [Continued on Pago B.] Congressional Express Of!; I More Cuts on Pennsy j And Other Railroads By Associated Press Philadelphia, Jan. 2. —The Penn sylvania Railroad to-day made a drastic cut in Its passenger service In an effort to clear the lines for freight traffic. _ The company can celed 104 trains, including the Son gressional limited, operating on the lines east of Pittsburgh. The change will take effect on January 6. Not more than one parlor car will hereafter be permitted on any day train anywhere on the Pennsylva nia system. All parlor cars will bo withdrawn on the Schuylkill di vision, which includes Reading, Pottsville and Wilkcs-Barre. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will not use the Pennsylvania sta tion in New York because It would create too much congestion, but the two companies will alternate in train service betwen New York and Wash ington. The commutation service between Philadelphia and Chester, Wilming ton, liddystone, Hog Island and other points where there are munition plants and shipyards will not be cur tailed, as vast numbers of workmen are continuously being transported. Service between Pittsburgh and nearby point 3 where Government \ work is being done likewise will not be interfered with. I There will be heavy cuts on the ! suburban lines t>round Philadelphia i and the Atlantic City schedule also l wHI be materially reduced. > Today's cut in service which was ! arranged along lines suggested by ' Director General McAdoo, brings the j total of trains eliminated by the i Pennsylvania Railroad since July 1 | up to 206. The Congressional Limited, one of | the country's most famous trains for the past thirty-two years, will be re | placed with a train of day loaches I leaving Washington at 4 p-. m. daily. The express between ■ New York, Philadelphia and Gleveland, known eastbound as the "Clevelander" and westbound as the "Buckeye," will also be dropped. All daylight sleeping cars no.v used on the Metropolitan and East ern Expresses, between the east and Chicago and St. Louis, will be dis continued. In addition to the Congressional Limited, other trains to be dropped j are: Boston, Pittsburgh and St. Louis express, both ways, giving through serticc between Boston and the southwest, via Hell Gate bridge: 4.35 p. m. express. New York to Wash ington; 6 p. m. New York to Wash ington, latter to ho changed to stop at Philadelphia: 12.08 p. m., which will be superseded by one at 11.08 to Washington: 5.02 p. m., will leave New York at 5.08 and run through to Washington; 12.30 p. m„ New Yprk to Washington; 4.37 p. m., New York and Washington, and 8 p. m. Philadelphia and New York; main lino express leaving Pittsburgh 7.10 a. m.; eastern express leaving Pitts burgh at 7.50 a. in., changed to leave at 7.20 a. m. and take all work of the 7.50, which is dropped. The lat ter, which formerly ran through to New York, will in the future have its terminus in Philadelphia. DIES EATING BREAKFAST Chambersburg, Pa., Jan. 2. S. Holmes Gillan, leading and oldest plumber in the. town, was seized with ! apoplezy while eating his breakfast I at his home in Lincoln Way, west, I this morning and died in a few min-| utes. He was aged 50, a bachelor,] and was the largest mail in tlio town, i weighing 400 pounds. Single Copy, 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA 1 LATE NEWS i I ■ 5 : 3S • * * •'- TUSTIN TOURS COUNTIES * ' O * * J Jan. 2.—To assist in completing the or- I 4 gan., ,ion .f district sreakvrs bureau 'of the Pennsvl- * * s " * JL vania Committee of Public Safety, State Chairman * ' a * * „ k Ernest touring the counties ac- > •'r '* > ' companied by a staff of speakers. ij * 5 CHAMBERLAIN DENIES GUILT * * |e Goochland, Va., Jan. 2.—As Dr. Asa W. Chamberlain ■£* went on tna! here to-day for the murder of his brother, * ' Un Albert Chamberlain, he repudiated his counsel's state J* ► ment that he would plead guilty and ask the mercy of L t the court, and reiterated his innocence. * * Jjp * * 4 WILLIAMSPORT NAMES COMMISSIONER * * r j. j.V. -T.lf . c< J:- t'.-dsv r - 4> b bed 'lie war-time position of commis ior.-r • 4 '• 4 r;• *■. commerce end named'Charb'-- C. Kraus* prwi- ' , JC dfitt c-f the Bo.'rd of Trade, the first iccumben* Ke v ii! * * *s* ' T rrvc without a salary. Kr. use will open an office in ♦ |l I Washington to represent the combined manufacturers o f t ®|* Williamsport in an effort to -ecure government contract? , § for local concerns. All plants, making non-essential a'- -J [ X tides will be converted into war order factories. * ® X *£ s * * f SUGAR INVESTIGATION RESUMED J <£s Washington, Jan. 2.—The Senate Manufacturers' ** 4 * ® J ' 'ation of the sugar situa- 2 e* ' <| tion to-day prepared to hear a statement- from Food Ad- |*T \ ministrator Hoover replying to charges that the. fixed Vim i'! t price imposed by the administration was respon X § t'iblc for the recent shortage. The food administrator is <4£ jr ' ' l he previou A £ through the White House. J WILL RECONSIDER PROPOSAL T L London. Jan. 2.—ln consequence of strong protests A T the British war cabinet will reconsider its proposal to JL' ey ta'-;c iv.r the British Museum Building for the use of JT the air board. JL ¥ FRENCH BRING DOWN SIX HUN PLANES ¥ jp Paris, Jan. 2. —Six German airplanes were put out of ijfi T ,; ' " 1 yerferday by the French, it is announced officially. Jf X Artillery fighting continues at various points on the front 5 6 but nb large infantry actions are reported. £ ITALY WILL INTERN ENEMY SUBJECTS Rome, Tuesday, Jan. I.—The Italian government has X <s taken measures to inteni all enemy subjects in Italy X X within foui or five days. La Epoca says. No exceptions ' t made. . nit *f 'i * T ;{, GERMAN RAIDING PARTIES REPULSED i X London, Jan. 2.—Several raids were made by th< Ger tj ■§ nan forces .last night on t!ic British positions on the jl'fJ* .'* an ani - Arras fronts. The official statement • ays *ll 5 J | 4* the raiding parties were repulsed. ,ti - -i ij JJ MONTREAL RINK DESTROYED BY FIRE ■ X Montreal. Jan. 2. The Montreal Arena, the biggevt • £ skating rink in Eastern Canada, was destroyed by Are ill '■£ ' lcrc to ' day - nc s '^ c t^c was blown dov/n .Jt j X when an ammonia plant, used for making artific'al ice *i* [ exploded. The rink thr scene of many of the leading v. 4* hockey matches of the Oorftinion. *? i J BLOCK ATTEMPT TO CROSS PIAVE % ( Rome, Jan 2.—Another attempt to cross the Piave 1 river has been defeated by the Italians, the war office an i T nounces. Half a score of vessels loaded with enemy 3* 1 -Jo troops were disposed at Intestadura. when the crossing V > 5 was attempted. | > NEW PEACE CONDITIONS IN PROGRESS j I -ft London, Jan. 2,—The central powers within the next ' X ten dayt will make new declarations regarding Germany's X ! peace conditions, a dispatch from Geneva to the Daily 4* > X Express quotes t,he Munich Nachrichten as saying. It X ;T* is added that modifications may be introduced owing to X ' 4 the attitude of the' entente powers. ,T* | MARRIAGE LICENSES f V Wlllinm H. Harvey nml llairlrt W. Ailiimn. I.nnrnstcrt Hnrry ', 4 n, (mil. Mlddn*liurß, and Alice C. Burhvr, Wcllavlllf. tja
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